Sharp County record., 1887-11-10
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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JAY GOULD's terrestrial troubles were
somewhat diminished on the 2oth by
Amsterdam people cabling discontinu-
ance of a big lawsuit Mr. GOuld's yacht,
the Ataanta, sailed for Europe on the
18th, and he is soon to follow by steamer.
ADvICEs received at Miles City, Mont,
from the Tongue River agency OF the
Cheyennes, state that all the young bucks
have left the agency, going otf with the
Crows.
The French steamer HindOostaH, Cap
tain Lot, which arrived at MarseIlLes,
from New York, on the 18th, took ire ana
was entirely burned. She had 5000 tons
of merchandise aboard all of which W as
destroyed.
ONE of the severest storms ever known
in Montana at this season is just over
There were four inches Of snow on the
ground at Billings on the 25th, and the
thermometer was fifteen degrees below
zero.
JAS. c. FLOOD, the bonanza millionaire,
is reported to be at deaths door. he has
not, and probably never will, recover from
the shock incident to the great wheat cor
ner and the Nevada Bank troubles. lie IS
a physical wreck.
A SLIDE Of rock occurred on the l6J-[ooO
level of the Iron Hill, near Deadwood,
OAK, on the 9th, bringing down ore OF
the estimated value Of SlOrRO. Assays
are said to give the return of about S2O,OJO
per ton, and it is thought that large
body exists which will reach that value.
THE President has pardoned Henry G.
Kurkendall, convicted in Michigan oI
having counterfeit coin in his possession
He also commuted the sentence Of VIM. ,.
Kirker, of Ohio; Hunter Poor Bear, a
Cherokee Indian, and George S. Irwin, OF
Colorado, convicted of violating the bahK-
ing, pension and postal laws respectively
THE st. Louis Browns won the last game
of the worlds base ball championship
series at st. Louis, on the 10Th, defeating
Detroit 8 to 2.
FUNERAL services over the remains Oh
the late E. B. Washburne were held at
Chicago on the 10Th. The remains were
afterwards taken to Galena.
LORD SALISBURY is represented as re-
GREETING the selection OF Joseph Chamber
lain as fisheries commissioner.
THE United States Supreme Court re-
fused, on the 2Gth, to listen to further oral
argument in the Kansas prohibition case.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has returned to Ber-
lin from a hunt at WernigerOde. He shot
four deer and eleven boars, and beat an
expert playing billiards during the trip.
COLONEL SWITzLER, chief Of ehe Bureau
of Statistics, has issued three hundred
page report on wool and woolen manu-
factures.
THE Interstate Commerce Commission
held a conference with prominent railroad
officials on the 18th relative to the annual
reports required by the law.
THE coroner's inquest over the dead
iynamiter at London developed the fact
that deceased was intimate with certain
from Philadelphia.
THE annual report Of the SurgeOn-Gen-
eral Of the army shows slight increase
Of the death rate in the service over that
1f last year.
AMERICAN swindlers have worked"
London banks recently foF sums Of money
lggregating $780, 900.
RETAIL merchants met in National con-
7ention at Philadelphia on the Goth.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, Secretary La
mont and Governor Hill have sent cash
contributions to the New York Democratic
fund.
IRvIyG HALL, New YORK, initiated the
republicans by indorsng Mr.. MARITIME for
udge of the Court of Sessions, and nomi-
lating Mr.. Nicol for district attorney.
THE sale Of LA Tosca," SardOu's new
)lay, to Fanny Davenport has greatly
lispleased Bernhardt, who wished to buy
t herself, or have it sold to Grau.
JOHN B. CORNELL, Of the firm Of }. B. 81
J. N. Cornell, iron founders, of New York,
lied 1t his home at Lakewood, n. j., on
,he Goth. He was sixty-six years Of age.
THERE are further indications of serious
trouble among the rotiners interested in
the great sugar trust.
THE residence of Adeina Patti, in
W ales, is reported to have been entered
by burglars and quantity Of valuable
iewelry stolen.
THE Montreal (Can.) Board of Trade at
the next session of Parliament will ask
for legislation to suppress bucket-shops.
The President has appointed VIM. W.
of Missouri, agent for the In
dans of the Warm Spring Agency in Ore
gon.
COLONEL GEORGE BRADY arrived at Dem
yer, Col, on the 26th, with two companies
Of the Eighteenth Infantry. General
Sheridan is expected every day, and will
select site for the new military post to
be called Post Sheridan.
A NEST Of rookeries in Newark, N. j.,
one of which was occupied by the Schuy-
Ter Electric Light Company, and another
by White & Garrison's stables, were
burned on the 2Gth. Ten horses and seven
cows perished in the flames loss, about
$4,000.
Lo HONG, part owner of laundry in
New York, was found dead with his
throat cut in the laundry on the 2Gth.
The case is supposed to have been one of
suicide, but is being investigated.
FIRE at Portage, Wis, on the 2Gth, to-
tally destroyed the Portage steam Touring
mill. The fire is supposed to have been
incendiary, as the mill had not been run
ming for week. Loss, $4,000; no insur-
ance.
FRENCH gun factories are being run to
their full capacity, turning out new
rife with which to equip the
army. The weapon is represented as the
greatest death dealer ever known in the
list of "peace-makers."
THE G.. A. r. gathering at Cincinnati on
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